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Join us to hear from Can Dundar, Deniz Yucel and Aidan White, who will share their experiences of the Turkish government's purge of the media and censorship of journalists seeking the truth.

Please note:

There will be no admission without a valid ticket and ID.

Also, if you are a journalist or member of the media and would like to attend, please contact us on info@daymer.org with your name, surname, organisation, press card number and press card exipry date. You will need to present your press card on the day.

If you do not have a press card we would require a headed paper from your organistion with the relevant details above.

Can Dundar

Can Dündar has been working as a journalist for the last 40 years, for several newspapers and magazines. He produced many TV documentaries focusing particularly on modern Turkish history and cultural anthropology. He worked as an anchorman for several news channels. He stepped down from his post as the editor in chief of the daily Cumhuriyet in August 2016, after he was sentenced 5 years and 10 months of imprisonment due to his story on the Turkish Intelligence Service’s involvement in the illegal transfer of arms into Syrian war. Then Prime Minister Erdoğan targeted Can Dündar on live television saying “the person who did this story will pay a heavy price for it, I won’t let him be.” Dündar was later arrested for charges of terrorism, espionage and revealing state secrets with the prosecutor demanding two life sentences plus 42 years of imprisonment. He spent 92 days in solitary confinement before being released by the Consitutional Court, the highest court in Turkey decided 12 votes against three that what he did was journalism and not terrorism. The day Dündar received his 5 year sentence, he was assaulted by a gunman at the courthouse which he survived thanks to his wife’s courage in tackling him. The gunman today remains free and able to travel with his passport while his wife’s passport has been illegally confiscated by association for nearly three years.

Can Dündar is a columnist for German daily Die Zeit and commentator for German WDR’s Cosmo. He founded the news website called #Özgürüz in exile… Dündar has been nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. He is the writer of more than 40 books, one of which, WeAreArrested has published in England in 2016, which the Royal Shakespeare Company adapted to a play for the Mischief Festival in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2017.

Deniz Yücel

Deniz Yücel, born 1973 in Flörsheim/Germany, is a Turkish-German journalist and publisher. He studied political science in Berlin and worked as an editor for the German weekly Jungle World and the daily newspaper Die Tageszeitung. In 2015 he became the Turkey correspondent for German daily newspaper, Die Welt. In February 2017, he was detained under the pretext of “terror propaganda”. The Turkish President labelled him as a “terrorist” and “spy”; he spent one year in Istanbul-Silivri prison without an indictment and during this time he was in solitary confinement. While in prison he married documentary filmmaker Dilek Mayatürk and published a German book titled “We are not for fun here”.

Aidan White

Aidan White is thePresident of the Ethical Journalism Network, the global organisation of the world’s major media professional groupswhich promotesethics,good governance and self-regulation of journalism across all media platforms. White is a journalist who has worked on numerous publications includingThe Guardian and the Financial Timesand for 24 years was General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, during which time he helped create the world’s largest organisation of journalistswith members in 126 countries. He founded the EJN in 2012. Today the Network has more than 60 members and supports programmes to strengthen journalism in the Middle East, South Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. It has provides leadership in strengthening ethics, good governance and self-regulation in journalism across all platforms of media.

White is also founder of global networks and coalitions of media organisations and press freedom groups. In particular, the International Freedom of Expression Exchange,(1993) and news safety International News Safety Institute, (2003). He was closely involved with Turkish partners in the 2018 launch of the Coalition for Ethical Journalism in Turkey. For 30 years he has been an adviser to the intergovernmental organisations, including the United Nations and its major agencies, on ethical journalism and regulation of media. He has written extensively on media policy, journalism and human rights and has advised on international policy to combat hate-speech and intolerance in journalism.

He currently works closely with media development groups in South East Europe, Turkey, the Middle East and China and has recently produced reports on the press freedom situation in Turkey (Censorship in the Park, 2014) and edited three extensive reports for the EJN (The Trust Factor: Self-Regulation in Journalism, 2015, and Untold Stories: How Corruption in Journalism, Politics and Business Stalks the Newsroom, 2015; and Moving Stories: Media Coverage of Migration, 2017).